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UBC’s 12th president, Professor Stephen Toope and PhD candidate and Trudeau Scholar, Aliette Shenin, engage in a conversation about the student experience at UBC. Fuel your body and mind! In addition to her research in education, Ms. Shenin has immersed herself in research on climate change in Alaska, internally-displaced people in Africa, ecotourism in New Zealand and endangered mountain gorillas and chimpanzees in Uganda.
Join alumni, friends and family for this inspirational start to the day and learn how Professor Toope views UBC students as global citizens and how Ms. Shenin is using her UBC education across the globe. (A special Alumni Weekend 2007 presentation sponsored by UBC Alumni Affairs, originally presented on 15-Sep-2007)
How big is your ecological footprint and what can you do to make it smaller? Sustainability: Actions that Make a Difference is a panel discussion moderated by UBC’s new Director of Sustainability, Charlene Easton, with Dr. John Robinson, Dr. Kathryn Harrison, Dr. Bill Rees, and second year Land and Food Systems student Tiffany Wong. How can alumni help UBC advance its leadership in sustainability? Don’t miss the discussion that will change your view of the world. (A special Alumni Weekend 2007 presentation sponsored by UBC Alumni Affairs, originally presented on 15-Sep-2007)
Why do homicidal psychopaths talk about food when they confess their crimes? Psychopaths are cold and callous individuals who often mimic appropriate emotional behaviour to ease interactions with others. Join UBC Okanagan’s Dr. Woodworth for this insightful lecture which considers both the criminal behaviour of psychopathic offenders as well as their own accounts of these incidents. (A special Alumni Weekend 2007 presentation sponsored by UBC Alumni Affairs, originally presented on 15-Sep-2007)
Arts One, begun in 1967 as an experimental seminar- and tutorial- based program in the humanities, quickly became an established institution at UBC, one chosen by some of the university’s most promising and academically successful first-year students….but can it survive? Professor Hundert, an Arts One veteran professor of more than 12 years and past director of the program will explore how Arts One fits – or doesn’t fit – into the transformed academic environment of a research-based university. (A special Alumni Weekend 2007 presentation sponsored by UBC Alumni Affairs, originally presented on 15-Sep-2007)
Dr. Evans, UBC Engineering professor, will tackle the prospect of global climate change brought about primarily by our prolific energy use and heavy dependence on fossil fuels. Learn how all of our energy needs are supplied from just three primary energy sources, why some proposed solutions are more sustainable than others and how the link between energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions can be broken. (A special Alumni Weekend 2007 presentation sponsored by UBC Alumni Affairs, originally presented on 15-Sep-2007)
Dr. Max Cynader is Director of the Brain Research Centre, a Canada Research Chair in Brain Development, and a Professor of Ophthalmology. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, and a Fellow of the Order of British Columbia. Come hear him speak on how to age successfully, diseases of the aging brain, and what you can do to cope. (A special Alumni Weekend 2007 presentation sponsored by UBC Alumni Affairs, originally presented on 15-Sep-2007)
